AQUAEITTM. 



THE FEESH-WATER AQUAEIT7M. 



With regard to fhe shape of your aquarium, the straight- 

 sided tank is the best, for many reasons. If a round globe of 

 glass be used, xinless you peep over the edge of the vessel you 

 win never see a single thing or creature it contains, in its real 

 shape : your gold fish wiU be mere yellow blurs and patches, 

 and your water-plants a green tangle. The glass vase is better 

 than the spherical vessel ; but even this is open to the consider- 

 able objection, that at a single blow^-of a bit of your rock- 

 ornament, or of an awkward fellow's elbow, for instance — ^your 

 costly vase may be wrecked beyond repair ; whereas, if tiie 



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